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(No Model.) T 4 A. LUTHY.

EAR RINGQT 7 No. 361,769. Patented Apr. 26, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

ADOLPH LUTHY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

EAR-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,769, dated April 26, 1887.

Application filed March 15, 1887. Serial No. 230,962. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADOLPH LUTHY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in EarRings, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in ear-rings; and it consists in a novel means, hereinafter described, by which the pendant is connected with the usual small ring affixed to the ear-wire.

The object of the invention is to produce a novel connection between the pendant and the small ring above referred to, which will insure that sensitive scintillation in the pendant adapted to display the brilliancy of the diamond to the best advantage and which will enable the jeweler to reset the stone any number of times without danger of bringing the same into contact'with the ring affixed to the ear-wire and without removing the connection 7 between the pendant and said ring and soldering it farther back at each resetting, as is necessary in the case of ear-rings now in use in order to maintain the pendant at a proper balance to display the beauty of the stone and to prevent the stone from being brought into 7 frictional contact with the ring on the earwire. The point at which the connection sought to be protected hereby bears upon the ring attached to the ear wire may be adjusted within proper limits without detaching it from the pendant, whereby I am enabled to effectually accomplish the objects of the invention above specified, to so hang the pendant that when in use it shall at all times be sensitive and have a constant motion, and at the same time to avoid that short tremor in the pendant which fails to exhibit the brillianey of the gem. v

I have illustrated the invention in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of an ear-ring employing the connection sought to be protected hereby, the view being taken at a point showing the side and rear of the ear-ring, and Fig. 2 an enlarged vertical section of the upperpart of the earrlng;

1n the drawings, A designates the ear-wire; B, the small ring affixed thereto; 0, the pendant, and D the adjustable connection between the pendant and ring B. The connection D is important in many essential particulars; and it consists of a loop of gold wire, which, after passing through the ring 13, is secured at one end to the rear portion of the pendant, its other end passing toward the front on an incline-to a point on a proper vertical plane through the pendant to insure the latter being suitably balanced. The form of the connection D permits the pendant to be secured close to the ear-wire, and, being in contact with the small ring B at a point forward of the rear portion of said pendant, the latter has a sensitive balanced or leverage motion especially adapted to exhibit the gem in the best possible manner. It is well known that at each resetting of the pendant the stone must beseated a little farther inward, and that this, in the class of ear-rings to which the invention relates, frequently necessitates the removal of the connection heretofore in use and the reattachment of the same a little to the rear of its former position, in order that the gem may not comeinto frictional contact with the ring B and may have a proper movement when in use.

My present invention avoids the necessity of removing the connection when the gem is to be reset, and also furnishes a means whereby the most desired character of movement in the pendant is insured.

According to my invention, when the stone is to be reset and there is any danger of the same being thereby brought into contact with the ring B, the front end of the connection D is simply pressed upward a little without disturbing its connection with the pendant. The connection D when pressed upward moves in the arc of a circle and permits that position to be given to it which insures the proper balance and movement of the gem and the prevention of the latterfrom coming into contact with the ring.

The ease and facility with which the connection D may be pressed upward or adjusted I to suit the requirements of the case constitute an important feature in this class of ear-rings, since it enables the resetting of the gem as many times as may be desired without any resulting disadvantage. The construction of the connection, also, is important in that it is most simple and durable in form and arrangement,

being a simple loop of wire secured at one end and possessing no features likely to become disarranged, clogged, or injured by any proper use. 1 l

5 What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In an ear-ring,- the ear-wire having the usual ring rigid therewith, combined with the pendant and the connection, the latter consisting I0 of a Wire loop secured at one end to the rear portion'of the pendant and extending forward on an incline, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 14th day of I 5 March, A. D. 1887. I

v ADOLPH LUTHY. WVitnesses:

CHAS. G. GILL, W. A. O. MATTHIE. 

